{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49853 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-49853 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49853 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-49853 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49853 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49853/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49853/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-49853","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49853/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-49853","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49853","GHSA-rc8q-6743-jh4w","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49853"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel macvlan driver allows local attackers to exhaust system memory by triggering specific network configuration 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c1 6b 6b  ..............kk\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffff813e06a7\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300\n    [\u003cffffffff81b66025\u003e] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0\n    [\u003cffffffff81b66a67\u003e] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170\n    [\u003cffffffff81b6775c\u003e] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0\n    [\u003cffffffff81b6797e\u003e] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20\n    [\u003cffffffff81d97f8f\u003e] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50\n    [\u003cffffffff81d98278\u003e] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70\n    ...\n\nIn the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',\nmacvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of\nremote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()\nreturn an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()\nis not cleaned up.\n\nUsing this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute\nmacvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink","id":"CVE-2022-49853","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"mctp: Fix an error handling path in mctp_init()","id":"CVE-2022-49854"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"riscv: process: fix kernel info leakage","id":"CVE-2022-49852"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-01","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API 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